IQNA

TEHRAN (IQNA) – Widespread Islamophobia is making American and European governments ignore the greatest human rights debacle of the 21st century: the Syrian Refugee Crisis.

Half of
Syria’s pre-war population has either been killed or displaced.

Over4.5
million refugees have fled war zones in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan for safety
in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and some secure areas of Iraq.

Highly
developed nations with far greater capacity to shelter refugees, on the other
hand, have turned their backs and closed their borders.

"Think
about some of the candidates today: Trump, Carson, Rick Santorum. Mr. Trump
basically says we should stop all Muslims coming in temporarily,” said John L.
Esposito, professor of international affairs and Islamic studies at Georgetown
University, in a lecture at UCSB last month.

"Mr.
Trump says that after 9/11 Palestinians in New Jersey were dancing in the
street, something that has been proven time and again to never have occurred,”
said Esposito.

Media Tenor,
an international media research institute, looked at 2.6 million pieces of news
from the United States and Europe since 9/11. They found that coverage of Islam
has continuously worsened; Muslims are almost always portrayed as violent
threats. These portrayals spiked when ISIL got into mainstream news, despite
only 1 in 10 victims of extremism being non-Muslim.

In the
European Union, with the exception of Germany, Sweden and a few other states,
countries are engaged in a contest of who can make their home the least
appealing to potential, mostly Muslim refugees.

Denmark, for
example—long seen as a beacon of tolerance and understanding—recently passed
new laws that force tired and helpless refugees to forfeit their most valuable
possessions.

The
situation isn’t any better in the United States.

Congress and
presidential candidates are fighting over the White House’s promise to give
refuge to a measly 10,000 Syrians.

The White
House hasn’t applied enough pressure on regional allies like Saudi Arabia,
Kuwait, Qatar and other Persian Gulf States to make them share the burden
either.

The fact
that many of the world’s major powers can’t get behind a resettlement policy to
confront the biggest humanitarian crisis since World War II is surprising.

The highly
developed west and company are leaving millions of weary, war torn refugees to
an unstable and unsafe future because of a made up fear of Muslims.